I was recently my honor to be interviewed for the cultural oracle that is OkayPlayer. Predictably a bit of work related stuff for starters, but also some chat about the recent Pugs Atomz album, historical stuff and some future bits and pieces. With thanks to Madeleine Byrne who conducted the[…]
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Blurb from WhoSampled: “Among the many greats of hip hop’s golden era currently celebrating their 25th year, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth’s debut long player ‘Mecca & the Soul Brother’ is rightly considered a standout – frequently lauded as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Released[…]
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I was recently interviewed for James Curry’s Electric Blanket podcast – a couple of hours of personal favourite records from all eras and plenty of music chat. Listen on Soundcloud below:
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This Sunday I’ll be playing at The Last Days of Shoreditch for Doctor’s Orders main man Spin Doctor’s birthday bash. Info here.
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This fun project is something I’ve been working on with WhoSampled and EMI for the last month or so. Blurb from WhoSampled: “An acronym for its founding fathers ‘Keith-Prowse-Maurice’, KPM is a label with a storied history which dates all the way back to the 1870 when instrument maker Robert[…]
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Pleased to be playing for the Wax Poetics crew this weekend in Paris. Full details here.
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I’m pleased to be playing at Glastonbury Festival again this year. Catch me playing at the El Jiminor Tequila Shack in The Glade Thursday 7pm for an extended Latin Concrete special and again over the weekend at Meeting Point bar & dance tent (check my Instagram for exact times once[…]
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This bank holiday Sunday I’m pleased to be playing at Pabst Blue Ribbon’s New York Loft Party at Old Street records in Shoreditch. Great line up including Scratch Perverts and Kid Kanevil. Facebook event page here.
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As a quick follow up to the video of my ‘History of Sampling’ video I posted earlier this week, I thought it might be useful to put together some foot notes to provide links for anyone wanting to explore a bit more on the topic, listen to the tracks I[…]
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Blurb from WhoSampled: “Recently reissued on 180gram vinyl by Be With Records, Ahmad Jamal’s 1970 piano trio opus ‘The Awakening’ is a sought after digger’s classic that is among the most heavily sampled jazz records of all time. Familiar samples from the LP form the backbone of countless 90s Hip[…]
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